What DU has taught me about religion.

[nil desperandum]

10. Don't forget

the wonderful malleability of scripture which means you and I can both read the same passages and come to entirely different meanings and that's okay because it doesn't really matter what scripture says as long as we both feel better about our religious identity as part of our self.

Consequently if you read the following line:

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

and determine that it means Jesus came down to change the old testament completely and I read it to mean that he is as part of the trio of divinity expressing his support for all the previous laws of the old testament we are both right because of that perfect malleability. Even though the words are quite clear that Jesus is actually saying he won't change a single line or title of the old laws you don't have to believe that...

This religion thing is simply amazing...make it up as you go and get pissy when people ask you why as though the question is some form of persecution.